His Grace — page 98: what you’re looking at

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92 HIS GRACE. CHAPTER VIII. BREAKERS AHEAD. On looking back at the concluding paragraph of the previous chapter, I see that I have permitted myself therein to speak of the female sex in terms which may seem to imply that I am not alive to the nature of woman’s beneficent mission upon the surface of this planet. But I really did not mean to be rude when I wrote the words, and should any lady do me the honor to peruse the present narrative (as it seems not im- probable that a few will), I would venture to appeal to that lady’s kindness and sympathy not to be too hard upon me. She will, I know, admit that women, and especially young women, require to be managed by women; with her quick intelligence she will at once guess why the memory of bygone irritation and per- plexity caused me to express myself irritably ; of course, too, she will have seen ere this something which I solemnly declare that I never dreamt of until circum- stances forced a most distressing conjecture upon me. And if I may now be permitted—like a parson in those churches where the men sit on one side of the aisle and the women on the other—to turn to the male section of my readers, I hope that they also will feel Gomichboo m